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2011-06-17
June 17: Killing Witches in Switzerland
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Churches in Switzerland continued to persecute mainly women for the imagined crime of witchcraft.

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2011-04-11
April 11: Last Witch Burning in Germany (1775): Churches v. Witchcraft
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Conrad of Marburg, first Inquisitor of Germany, memorably vowed, "We would gladly burn a hundred if just one of them was guilty."

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August 20: Bernardo O'Higgins

Bernardo O'Higgins (1778) It was on this date, August 20, 1778, that the Irish-Chilean soldier and statesman Bernardo O'Higgins was born Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme in Chillán, Chile. His father was an Irish engineer who refused to marry his mother, the daughter of an aristocratic Chilean family. His absent father at least saw that O'Higgins was […]



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